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PENGUIN ACTIVE READING
Integrating skills through reading
PENGUIN ACTIVE READING
Integrating skills through reading
LEVEL 2 600 Headwords A2 A2 LEVEL 2 600 Headwords
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Classic / British English
Don Quixote wants a different life, so
he leaves his village with Sancho Panza.
The two men want to be a knight and
his squire from an earlier age. Will they
find adventures? Will they be famous?
Will they change the world? This is their
story.
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4058 8442 6
Kong
Christopher Golden, retold by
Coleen Degnan-Veness
Contemporary / American English
Ann Darrow is an actor with no work
and no money. Carl Denham wants to
make a movie–but not in the United
States. A long, long way from New York
there is an island. And on that island lives
the giant King Kong. Who will live–and
who will die?
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1405 85208 1
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Contemporary / American English
Millions of people know and love the story
of E.T.—the little visitor from the stars.
Earth is interesting for E.T. but he wants
to go home. Can his new Earth friend,
Elliott, help him? This is the famous story
of one of the world’s favorite movies.
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4082 0950 9
Mr Bean
Richard Curtis and Robin Driscoll
Contemporary / British English
A famous painting is going to the Grierson
Gallery in LA and they want a top man to
come to the United States. He can talk
about the artist. The National Gallery in
London send Mr Bean. But something is
very wrong with Mr Bean! He’s very, very
strange. And dangerous! After he arrives,
accidents start to happen.
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4058 8443 3
The Earthquake
Elizabeth Laird
Original / British English
Gabriel loves Silvia, but Silvia loves Marco.
Marco wears expensive clothes and
drives a fast car. He is more exciting than
Gabriel. Then, one evening, something
terrible happens. It changes the lives of
everybody in the city. Where are Marco
and Gabriel? And what will happen to
Silvia?
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4082 0951 6
The Last Juror
John Grisham
Contemporary / American English
In Clanton, Mississippi, not much happens.
There aren’t many interesting stories for
Willie Traynor’s newspaper. But then
there’s a murder. When the killer goes to
jail, the story does not end. Everybody is
afraid now of this man and his family. Will
there be more killings? Who will be next?
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4082 6119 4
The First Emperor of China
Jane Rollason
Original / British English
Ying Zheng, king of Qin, became the first
emperor of China. He had new ideas
and made new laws. He built big palaces
– and a great wall. But life was difficult
for his people and dangerous for the
emperor. So he took an army with him
into the next world.
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4082 3198 2
Nelson Mandela
Coleen Degnan-Veness
Original / British English
Nelson Mandela’s life is the story of a
country boy and his fight for the black
people of South Africa. The extraordinary
story of a great man, a freedom fighter
and one of the world’s most important
leaders.
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4058 5209 8
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare
Before Christmas
Contemporary / American English
Everybody in Halloweentown loves
Halloween–but not Jack Skellington.
Every year he has to sing the same scary
songs. He is bored with them. Then, one
day, he visits Christmastown …
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4058 5210 4
Stories of other Worlds
H.G. Wells
Classic / British English
A mountain climber, high in the Andes,
falls into a strange valley. In London, a
man is looking for a green door. A third
man tries to help an unhappy ghost.
Each of these exciting stories shows us
two very different worlds. But which is
better? And can we really be happier in
another world?
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4082 3199 9
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Classic / British English
Paris, 1792, people are dying. Aristocrats
are running from angry revolutionaries,
and a brave Englishman is helping them.
He and his friends are taking them to
England. But who is this Englishman, this
‘Scarlet Pimpernel’? The revolutionaries
really want to know – and then they can
kill him.
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4082 6134 7
Wonders of the World
Vicky Shipton
Classic / American English
Around the world there are many beautiful
places. There are famous buildings, old
and new. Some are interesting; some
are important. Some are the tallest or
the biggest in the world. The Great Wall,
Machu Picchu, the Grand Canyon, the Taj
Mahal … Which are your wonders of the
world?
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4082 3202 2
Round the World
in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Classic / British English
Can Phileas Fogg go round the world
in eighty days? He doesn’t know that
somebody wants to stop him. Then
Fogg will lose his bet – twenty thousand
pounds!
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4058 8441 9
Water for Life
Bernard Smith
Original / British English
Water. We drink it. We cook with it.
We wash with it. We can’t live without
it. Most of us don’t think about it much.
But it is not there for everybody, and our
world is changing fast. We have to think
very carefully about water, and about our
use of it.
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4058 8444 0
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Classic / British English
Mary Lennox goes to live with her uncle
in a big, old house in the country. There
are many gardens round the house. One
day Mary finds a garden that has high
walls and no door. What is the secret of
the garden?
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4082 0952 3
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